Blog is just getting better and better...

Hi everyone, it's Ruby again (How cute are the Svalbard doggies in the photo?!!),

You may have noticed the video bar at the bottom, or you may not have, so scroll down now and take a look. Basically it's just a load of videos from youtube on svalbard doggies!!which you can watch from the comfort of our own blog. It took me a while to work out how to use it though, because when you click on the video, it actually plays right at the top of the blog, so you have to scroll right back up otherwise you just hear the music and that's a bit weird. That was a bit mentally challenging for me at first.

Here is a nice website I saw where you can look at webcams for Ny Alesund and Longyearbyen (and did you know that longyearbyen means town of the long year in - um - Norwegian!)

http://www.svalbard-images.com/

Ruby xxx

After the finals...

We got back from London, pretty tired from carrying all our equipment on the tubes in rush hour (nearly taking some people's eyes out along the way with our 7ft metal poles), and were told we'd be on BBC news breakfast TV, live, the next morning at some crazily early time - god, it's tough being famous - but it was really worth it, because we had quite a long interview (Ben Saunders was there as well) and it was great to see the BBC studios, see a few famous faces...(well, you can't prove that we didn't) and get our make-up done! I think the hype has pretty much calmed down now, there's only a few paparazzi still outside my door.

I know everyone's saying this, but Svalbard is going to be A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I was in New York last week and saw these gorgeous polar bears in the zoo, swimming right up close to you, and now I can't wait to see them in the wild! Even though they can rip your head off, they're just the cutest! But what I really really can't wait for is - dog sledding!!

Hi to everyone else on the trip, looking forward to meeting you again soon!

Ruby (second from left) xxx